Joan Westenberg
@daojoan.eth
TED offered a vision of the world where complex societal issues could be solved with a lightbulb moment and a well-designed PowerPoint presentation. Climate change? There's an app for that. Poverty? A social entrepreneur with a TED talk has it figured out. It was a worldview that flattered millennials' sense of ourselves as changemakers while conveniently ignoring the systemic barriers to real change. https://www.joanwestenberg.com/ted-talks-the-picotop-of-millennial-pop-intellectualism
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My memory may be failing me. But I started following TED Talks around 2006, and unless I was too naive to notice it back then, there was no call to action then. I remember these talks as amazing testimonies from people who had something to share. I think the call to action came later, and this is what changed everything.
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Totally agree with the rest!
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